What exactly is the progressive movement fighting for these days? It’s time for a new, clear vision for the Left and what it wants to rally for. What substantive changes are needed? asks Robert Merkel.

Patriots and progressives have been suspicious of each other in Australia, ever since the Howard years. It’s time for the Left to realise that anti-patriotism alienates potential voters, writes Tim Soutphommasane.

Everyone loves to trash the media as being full of left leaning journalists, but it’s the conservative right wing commentators that get more publicity. Small ‘l’ liberal is not the same as left wing, writes Lindsay Foyle.

How can undergraduates with little exposure to a discipline or subject be expected to criticise their lecturer or tutor before gaining an understanding of the discipline or subject itself, asks Irfan Yusuf.